A project to establish a court to prosecute the Russian leaders who orchestrated the invasion of Ukraine took a step forward Wednesday, with an announcement from a group of international organizations, including the European Union and the Council of Europe, working together with Ukraine. Legal experts agreed on the framework for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which will allow for the prosecution of senior Russian officials for planning and coordinating the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday as attorney general, taking charge of the Justice Department as it braces for upheaval with President Donald Trump aiming to exert his will over an agency that has long provoked his ire. The ceremony took place in the Oval Office and it was the first time that the Republican president had participated in a second-term swearing-in of a Cabinet member. Before Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath of office, Trump praised Bondi's record as a prosecutor and said she will restore “fair, equal and impartial justice at the department.”
The Trump administration warned federal employees that they could be furloughed if they don't accept a buyout offer.
“I think we all agree that it should require the consent,” Danny Danon said.
A group that played a key role in Donald Trump’s voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip. Bishara Bahbah, chairman of the group formerly known as Arab Americans for Trump, said during a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that the group would now be called Arab Americans for Peace. The name change came after Trump held a Tuesday press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Pennsylvania State Police were hunting on Wednesday for thieves who stole about 100,000 organic eggs from a wholesaler's warehouse over the weekend, a haul worth more than $40,000 retail amid a national shortage that has caused prices to surge. Pennsylvania State Trooper Megan Frazer, who is investigating the case, told Reuters that in her dozen years on the force she has never before encountered an egg theft. "This is a major felony, given the value of what was taken," she said of the theft that happened Saturday in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Harrisburg, the state capital.
Shares in Google parent Alphabet slumped on Wednesday as its earnings disappointed investors and it was ensnared in rising trade tensions.Shares in Alphabet slumped more than eight percent at the open of trading, with lower-than-expected revenue growth in its cloud division raising questions about its ability to compete with rivals in the heated AI infrastructure market.
Trump’s order, set to take effect in two weeks, was already temporarily paused.
President Donald Trump wants to turn war-ravaged Gaza into the 'Riviera of the Middle East.' Here's what that means.
Prosecutors say one of the men arrested Tuesday was working with a crew alleged to be behind the December burglary at the home of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
Workday is cutting about 1,750 jobs, or 8.5% of its workforce. In a Wednesday memo to employees, published in a securities filing, Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach said the layoffs were necessary for ongoing growth efforts at the company — including a particular focus on artificial intelligence investments. “As we start our new fiscal year, we’re at a pivotal moment,” Eschenbach wrote.
The outcome of the case could determine whether other independent agencies can be insulated from the president’s reach.
The CIA is moving "swiftly" to align its workforce with the Trump administration's national security priorities, the agency said Wednesday, with staff members understood to have received government buyout offers."Director (John) Ratcliffe is moving swiftly to ensure the CIA workforce is responsive to the administration's national security priorities," a spokesperson said in a statement.
The king and queen visited the scene of the tragic event that occurred on Tuesday and Swedish flags were flown at half-mast to honor the victims.
Donald Trump and the GOP have a surprising new ally in their push to clamp down on 'debanking': Elizabeth Warren.
U.S. aid staffers around the world scrambled Wednesday for answers and started to pack up households or pull their children from school after a sudden Trump administration order that yanked almost all of them off the job and out of the field. In Washington, Democratic lawmakers and other supporters of the U.S. Agency for International Development planned rallies to protest the dismantling of the independent government agency established six decades ago. USAID has been one of the agencies hardest hit as the new administration and Elon Musk’s budget-cutting team target federal programs they say are wasteful or not aligned with a conservative agenda.
Life in northern Gaza is desperate – there is no water, no electricity and so much rubble that there’s barely enough space to put up tents. Yet many Palestinians are determined to stay and rebuild – even if US President Donald Trump wants them out of the enclave so he can create a Middle Eastern “riviera.”
Some high-density airspace regions could have as high as a 26% of being affected by an uncontrolled rocket body reentry.
Donald Trump's stunning proposal that the United States could take control of the Gaza Strip has drawn criticism from governments around the world.Trump later said, "I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable."
GREENBELT, Maryland (Reuters) -A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday became the second one nationally to block Donald Trump's administration from implementing the Republican president's executive order aimed at curtailing birthright citizenship in the United States. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt sided with two immigrant rights groups and five pregnant women who argued that their children were at risk of being unconstitutionally denied U.S. citizenship based on their parents' immigration status. The judge, an appointee of Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump's order from going into effect nationwide as planned on Feb. 19.
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